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Headword:
*porfu/rios
Adler number: pi,2098
Translated headword: Porphyrios, Porphyrius, Porphyry
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He who wrote against [the] Christians; [he] who was properly called King;[1] from Tyre, a philosopher, student of Amelios who was a student of Plotinos, and teacher of Iamblichos.[2] He flourished in the time of Aurelian and lasted until the emperor Diocletian. He wrote very many books, on philosophy and rhetoric and grammar. He was also a student of the critic
Longinus.[3] [He wrote]
On Divine Names, 1 [book];
On First Principles, 2;
On Matter, 6;
On the Soul against Boethus, 5;
About Abstinence from Animate Creatures, 4;
On 'Know Yourself',[4] 4;
On Incorporeal Beings;
On the Sect of Plato and Aristotle being One 6;[5]
[Commentary] on the [Oracles] of Julian the Chaldean;
Philosophical History in 4 books;[6] 15 speeches against the Christians;
On the Philosophy of Homer;
Against Aristotle in the matter of the Soul being Entelechy; 5 books of
Philological Investigation;
On Generation and Form and Difference and Uniqueness and Accidence;
On the Sources of the Nile according to Pindar; 10 books of
Tips for Kings out of Homer; 6 of
Mixed Investigations;
[Commentary] on the Prologue of Thucydides;
Against Aristides, 6;
[Commentary] on Minucian's Art of Rhetoric;[7] and lots of other works, especially astronomical; among them an
Introduction to Astronomy in three books; also
Grammatical Cruces.
This man is the
Porphyry who wagged his wicked tongue against the Christians.
*porfu/rios, o( kata\ *xristianw=n gra/yas: o(\s kuri/ws e)kalei=to *basileu/s: *tu/rios, filo/sofos, maqhth\s *)ameli/ou tou= *plwti/nou maqhtou=, dida/skalos de\ *)iambli/xou, gegonw\s e)pi\ tw=n xro/nwn *au)rhlianou= kai\ paratei/nas e(/ws *dioklhtianou= tou= basile/ws. e)/graye bibli/a pa/mpleista, filo/sofa/ te kai\ r(htorika\ kai\ grammatika/. h)=n de\ kai\ *loggi/nou tou= kritikou= a)kroasa/menos. *peri\ qei/wn o)noma/twn a#, *peri\ a)rxw=n b#, *peri\ u(/lhs #2#, *peri\ yuxh=s pro\s *bo/hqon e#, *peri\ a)poxh=s e)myu/xwn d#, *peri\ tou= *gnw=qi sauto\n d#, *peri\ a)swma/twn, *peri\ tou= mi/an ei)=nai th\n *pla/twnos kai\ *)aristote/lous ai(/resin z#, *ei)s th\n *)ioulianou= tou= *xaldai/ou filoso/fon i(stori/an e)n bibli/ois d#, *kata\ *xristianw=n lo/gous ie#, *peri\ th=s *(omh/rou filosofi/as. *pro\s *)aristote/lhn tou= ei)=nai th\n yuxh\n e)ntele/xeian, *filolo/gou i(stori/as bibli/a e#, *peri\ ge/nous kai\ ei)/dous kai\ diafora=s kai\ i)di/ou kai\ sumbebhko/tos, *peri\ tw=n kata\ *pi/ndaron tou= *nei/lou phgw=n, *peri\ th=s e)c *(omh/rou w)felei/as tw=n basile/wn bibli/a i#, *summi/ktwn zhthma/twn z#, *ei)s to\ *qoukudi/dou prooi/mion, *pro\s *)aristei/dhn z#, *ei)s th\n *minoukianou= te/xnhn, kai\ a)/lla plei=sta, kai\ ma/lista a)stronomou/mena: e)n oi(=s kai\ *ei)sagwgh\n a)stronomoume/nwn e)n bibli/ois trisi/: kai\ *grammatika\s a)pori/as. ou(=to/s e)stin o( *porfu/rios o( th\n kata\ *xristianw=n e)fu/briston glw=ssan kinh/sas.
Notes:
234-c.305 AD. See also
pi 2099, web address 1, web address 2, and generally OCD4
Porphyry.
[1] A more familiar Greek synonym of the Syrian name (which in Greek is transliterated as) Malkhos.
[2] cf.
alpha 1549,
pi 1811.
[3]
lambda 645.
[4] The famous Delphic maxim: see
gamma 334, cf.
gamma 333.
[5] As noted by Gerson (2005: 9), this work in six books displays the Neoplatonic interest to argue for the harmony between
Plato and
Aristotle. This line corresponds to
Porphyry's frag. 239T (ed. Smith).
[6] Valesius conjectured
ta\ instead of
th\n, because the
commentary on the Oracles of Julian the Chaldean should be distinguished from the
Philosophical History (pointed out by Yvan Bubloz). On Julian the Chaldaean, see
iota 433.
[7] See
mu 1087.
E.R. Dodds, "New Light on the 'Chaldean Oracles'", Harvard Theological Review 54 (1961): 267
L. Gerson, Aristotle and Other Platonists, Ithaca and London 2005
Hans Lewy, Chaldean Oracles and Theurgy, Paris, Études Augustiniennes, 1978, 449-452
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; Christianity; chronology; epic; ethics; food; geography; historiography; philosophy; poetry; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 10 June 2002@16:28:03.
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